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Progressive Education. In Baton Rouge, Stanford and Loyola Bardwell, who named their first four children Stanford Jr., Tulane, Duke and Harvard, named their fifth Princeton...
With the final chord of the Prelude to Die Meister singer, the courtly figure on the podium put down his baton, bowed elegantly to his audience, and strode from the stage. The orchestra and audience remained in their seats, but Serge Koussevitzky did not return. In his place, amid a sudden hush, gold-spectacled Henry Cabot, president of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, slowly mounted the stage. The word had already gotten out that Harry Cabot had a very special announcement to make, and most of the audience had a good idea of what...
...Concertgebouw learned many a score under the baton of the composer himself-Strauss, Mahler, Hindemith-and many more under guest experts like Pierre Monteux, Ernest Ansermet (TIME, Feb. 2), Bruno Walter. For 45 of its 60 years it felt the sure hand of the same good conductor, Willem Mengelberg. Among his innovations were the great annual Easter performances of Bach's St. Matthew Passion and foreign tours for which the Concertgebouw is famed...
...fulfillment of a dream!" crowed NBC's General David Sarnoff: "What a joy it is that this can be done while our beloved maestro is still a young man." And with that, Arturo Toscanini, who will be 81 this week, raised his baton, and led the NBC Symphony into its first televised concert...
Clee Club and Choral Society singers will join tonight at Sanders Theater in the Annual Sanders Concert under the baton of conductor G. Wallace Woodworth '24. The 200-voice group will perform two works by Handel and two by Randall Thompson...